Lambda Bare Metal Instances: full hardware control with API-driven operations
Blog post from Lambda
Lambda Bare Metal Instances offer a new approach to AI compute by combining the advantages of both bare-metal servers and virtualized cloud instances, providing direct access to hardware while maintaining ease of use through API-driven operations. These instances, starting with the NVIDIA GB300 NVL72, eliminate the need for a third-party hypervisor, ensuring uncompromised performance, security, and hardware-rooted security with NVIDIA BlueField Data Processing Units (DPUs) in Zero Trust Mode. This setup allows users direct control over the CPU, memory, GPU, disk, and TPM, while infrastructure management is offloaded to existing components in modern NVIDIA GPU servers. With programmability for global fleets and self-service APIs, Lambda Bare Metal Instances integrate seamlessly into existing infrastructures, offering a viable alternative for teams needing deterministic hardware behavior and sensitive data handling without sacrificing performance or control. These instances are first deployed on Superclusters, which are single-tenant clusters optimized for specific workloads, showcasing Lambda's commitment to bridging the gap between cloud-grade usability and bare-metal capabilities.